"Future Legend" is an intro to the song Diamond Dogs:
And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare
The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building
High on Poacher's Hill
And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
No more big wheels
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald
Any day now
The Year of the Diamond Dogs
There's the clue to a Diamond Dog, what it is - I guess it's like the album cover picture, a dog person, some bizzaro future creature:
"peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs"
but since it's David Bowie talking the peoploid probably not literally a half-dog half-person, but what can become of a person in post nuclear holocaust - stripped of all the techne from centuries of industry - we become dogs.
I remember a diamond collar on the cover picture too and this quote:
"Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald "
gives me the picture of people scavenging store fronts, turning fancy furs into clothing and toidy jewlery of the dead wealthy into the decoration of the mutant survivors.
@coo2kachoo I always thought "Any Day Now" was the motto on the jewel-encrusted family badge, a sort of optimistic message of hope from a civilised suburban nuclear family, now just another piece of gaudy junk adorning a Diamond Dog.
@coo2kachoo I always thought "Any Day Now" was the motto on the jewel-encrusted family badge, a sort of optimistic message of hope from a civilised suburban nuclear family, now just another piece of gaudy junk adorning a Diamond Dog.
"Future Legend" is an intro to the song Diamond Dogs:
And in the death As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building High on Poacher's Hill And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City No more big wheels
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald Any day now
The Year of the Diamond Dogs
There's the clue to a Diamond Dog, what it is - I guess it's like the album cover picture, a dog person, some bizzaro future creature:
"peoploids split into small tribes Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers Like packs of dogs"
but since it's David Bowie talking the peoploid probably not literally a half-dog half-person, but what can become of a person in post nuclear holocaust - stripped of all the techne from centuries of industry - we become dogs.
I remember a diamond collar on the cover picture too and this quote:
"Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald "
gives me the picture of people scavenging store fronts, turning fancy furs into clothing and toidy jewlery of the dead wealthy into the decoration of the mutant survivors.
IMAGERY ORGY
@coo2kachoo I always thought "Any Day Now" was the motto on the jewel-encrusted family badge, a sort of optimistic message of hope from a civilised suburban nuclear family, now just another piece of gaudy junk adorning a Diamond Dog.
@coo2kachoo I always thought "Any Day Now" was the motto on the jewel-encrusted family badge, a sort of optimistic message of hope from a civilised suburban nuclear family, now just another piece of gaudy junk adorning a Diamond Dog.